What if you had to walk 20 miles just for one glass of water?

Women and children in Africa are forced to walk over 20 miles every day in desperate conditions in order to reach water sources. CB Creative Agency is teaming up with the Laguna Beach High School Walking for Water Club in effort to end this threatening water crisis in West Africa.

Beyond working with our primary clients, we at CB Creative Agency embrace the opportunity we have to give back by helping nonprofit causes such as Walking for Water. We developed this website with the Laguna Beach High School Walking for Water Club, and we are helping the club to promote their "walk for water" on June 3, 2018. Come walk with us or visit their website to donate directly to the cause.

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

The Laguna Beach High School Walking for Water Club is hosting a "walk for water" on June 3rd, 2018 at the Laguna Beach High School Track from 12-3 pm.

The Walking for Water Club empowers our teens to service those in need and share their gifts to uplift communities. Walking for Water is honored to support Wisdom Spring, in the effort to build wells in rural Africa. Clean water is a luxury in many parts of the world, but with your generosity we can help put an end to water deprivation. This walk symbolizes the daily struggle of women and children around the world, as they walk miles each day to access clean water.

Last year we were able to dig two wells in Burkina Faso and East Africa, bringing clean water to over 2,000 people! This year we are counting on you to reach our goal of digging three wells and hopefully expanding our efforts to Nepal.

It's always a good day when we hear that the press is covering our incredible clients and their work! Dr. Cynthia Costa, a dynamic physician who values natural-based protocols and health for the entire family, was recently featured in a San Clemente Times article and received two People's Choice Ole awards.

Costa Lifestyle Medicine also won the gold award for 2017's Best Alternative Health Care Provider and the silver for 2017's Best Chiropractor in San Clemente. Way to go Dr. Costa!

At its core CB Creative Agency is motivated by a love for creative evolution, and we hope each blog post inspires you with our work. Be sure to check out our Facebook and Instagram pages @cbcreative.agency.

Facial Lounge is a skincare boutique in Newport Beach, California offering advanced treatments and state-of-the-art products. Owner Amber Johnson’s vision is to use only the purest vegan and organic ingredients.

When Amber approached us asking for a logo, we were inspired to create an image that reflected the pure essence of Facial Lounge. With the help of Ani Baez, we created this sleek watercolor logo by hand.

Need Branding Assistance for Your Business?

CB Creative is here to help! Contact us with any branding and design questions and we would be thrilled to assist you.

At its core CB Creative Agency is motivated by a love for creative evolution, and we hope each blog post inspires you with our work. Be sure to check out our Facebook and Instagram pages @cbcreative.agency.

What Makes a Powerful Brand Image?

What types of brands are you drawn to? What types of images or ideas catch your eye and cause you to smile? When you're scrolling through an Instagram or Pinterest feed, have you ever thought about why certain posts cause you to stop, read, like, re-pin, comment, or screenshot the content?

As designers, we at CB Creative Agency are always looking for inspiration in the media world around us. We, too, ask ourselves the question: what brands inspire us, and why?

For years, one of our all-time favorite brands has been Pantone. This incredibly successful company began as a graphic standards system for professional designers in 1963, but since then it has morphed into a global design force. Today, their marketing efforts are geared toward becoming a brand synonymous with good design and a universal language of color.

Our Favorite Things About Pantone

1. Its iconic, clean design style

2. Its universality-- the entire design world knows, loves, and utilizes the Pantone color palette

3. Its marketing style-- Pantone markets itself by featuring the work of fans (the images below are all user-created images/videos that Pantone has featured in its Instagram feed)

@hol_fox

@fromraintoshine

@premodtextil

@mydailypantone

At its core CB Creative Agency is motivated by a love for creative evolution, and we hope each blog post inspires you with our work. Be sure to check out our Facebook and Instagram pages @cbcreative.agency.

Indie Republic Design: "Inspired by Nature, Adorned by You"

Indie Republic Design is a clothing, lighting, and jewelry boutique in Newport Beach. All of IRD’s pieces are as distinct and varied as the SoCal coast and reflect the carefree bohemian lifestyle embodied by the locals. As a women-run business, their aim is to enhance beauty by adorning you with the loving energy of Indie Republic Design.

Logo Design

At CB Creative Agency, we want all of our logos to reflect the core values and vibe of our clients. This logo, co-designed with Begson, expresses the beachy, bohemian, natural vibe of IRD, which inspires us.

Need a Logo or Other Branding Assistance?

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All of our interior styling projects follow a similar process that allows us to methodically achieve the perfect space to exceed our client’s expectations.

STEP 1: Identifying the Client’s Style

Before any design project, we like to delve in and identify the core of our client’s style. After meeting with Roger, his contemporary art collection, Taiwanese heritage, love of the desert (especially Joshua Tree), passion for electronic and soul music, career at a virtual reality company, fondness of LA sunsets, and desire for multi-functional pieces stood out to us.

STEP 2: Making a Design Board

Next, we like to create a design board to develop inspiration for our project; in Roger’s case, we found many images that matched his warm and contemporary style.

STEP 3: Staging a Walkthrough

Next, we visit the existing space and stage a walkthrough. This is a largely intuitive process-- the walkthrough allows us to immediately visualize where pieces are going to go and create a visual story for the space.

STEP 4: Choosing a Color Palette

In choosing the paint palette for the home, we wanted the tones to be earthy, bold, and reflective of Roger’s eclectic personality. We wanted the art displayed in the home to reflect these same tones. Roger already had a vast contemporary art collection, so we carefully picked out and placed these existing pieces along with the new ones.

STEP 5: Picking New Pieces

At CB Creative we have a vast array of connections with other designers, carpenters, and artists who customize pieces for our interior projects. For Roger’s home, the custom designers include:

Need help with your own interior?

CB Creative is here to help! Our team has re-designed a variety of spaces-- from homes to doctor's offices to hair studios. Be sure to contact us for any design assistance.

At its core CB Creative Agency is motivated by a love for creative evolution, and we hope each blog post inspires you with our work. Be sure to check out our Facebook and Instagram pages @cbcreative.agency.

TJ Wisco

One of our favorite branding projects has been our work with Tara Johnson, also known as TJ Wisco. This fine artist specializes in portraits, whether it be your favorite pop culture icon painted in vibrant colors or a quick sketch of a quiet train commuter. She focuses on everyday life and turns it into art, incorporating themes from modern music, sports, and her own friends and family. We are inspired by her bold artwork and distinct style.

How Did We Do It?

This branding project involved both logo and website design. This rad logo designed by Begson used Tara's hand signature and a simple color combination. For TJ Wisco's website, we wanted to display her art in a clean, chic way to make it easy and enjoyable for buyers to explore her incredible pieces.

Need Branding Assistance?

At its core CB Creative Agency is motivated by a love for creative evolution, and we hope each blog post inspires you with our work. Be sure to check out our Facebook and Instagram pages @cbcreative.agency.

Katie Hopkins: Fine Artist

Katie Hopkins is a California-based artist who uses her foundation of color theory to create balanced compositions featuring an attentive use of light and shadow. Her artworks predominantly reflect her fascination with nature and West Coast landscapes. Raised in New Jersey as a third generation artist, Hopkins was encouraged to experiment with diverse mediums and currently sketches and paints with watercolors, oils and acrylics.

Inspiration

Hopkins has deep roots in Fine Art, and is heavily influenced by masters such as Cezanne, Monet, and Renoir. Theirinfluences can be seen in her paintings, which have been the subject of several major exhibitions and found homes in private collections.

Working with young artists has also influenced her artistic approach and challenges Hopkins to view art through an alternate lens.

Commercial

Cryptic Cycles

Earthwise Bags

Fodada

Kalmbach Farms

At its core CB Creative Agency is motivated by a love for creative evolution, and we hope each blog post inspires you with our work. Be sure to check out our Facebook and Instagram pages @cbcreative.agency.

On Tuesday, July 31, the CB Creative Team had a photoshoot with Covina Smile, a dental clinic located in West Covina, CA. Sima Khavaran, DDS, has been an ongoing client of ours since 2011, and it has been incredible to watch her dental clinic take off!

CB Creative designed Covina Smile’s original logo and website 6 years ago, and she has remained a loyal client ever since. Sima recently opened up a new clinic, so we wanted to refresh her branding content to reflect the new space. Sima is one of the kindest human beings we’ve ever met, and we are so glad our team had the chance to capture her glowing personality and successful work!

She also had some really kind words to say about working with us:

At its core CB Creative Agency is motivated by a love for creative evolution, and we hope each blog post inspires you with our work. Be sure to check out our Facebook and Instagram pages @cbcreative.agency.

Shrouded in dreamlike memories of his childhood in the Philippines, Dodie infuses the sights and emotions of his memories onto the canvas. A deep need to express his enigmatic visions led him to create works that invoke both the beauty and imperfections we encounter in our lives.

Evolution of the Artist:

Dodie Sy was raised in the natural splendor of the Philippines and moved to California with his family at age 13, where he had to assimilate to a new environment and find his identity as an artistic immigrant. Dodie initially studied interior design at FIDM on a full scholarship, but longed for more creative freedom and left school to pursue floral design. Escalating his artistry from simple arrangements to grand scale events, Dodie has had many industry achievements and works with White Lilac, Inc. today.

An Artist

Never one to sit idle, he soon felt compelled to try a new medium and began painting floral scapes in watercolor. Shortly after his husband saw his potential as a painter he urged Dodie to try his hand at oil painting. Dodie instantly fell in love with the medium and his ability to manipulate the vivid oils on the canvas.

Today, Dodie Sy is showing at Laguna Gallery of Contemporary Art in Laguna Beach, CA. He has also shown at the Santa Ana Artwalk and been featured in Modern Luxury OC Magazine.

At its core CB Creative Agency is motivated by a love for creative evolution, and we hope each blog post inspires you with our work. Be sure to check out our Facebook and Instagram pages @cbcreative.agency.

"And I'd choose you, in a hundred of lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality. I'd find you and I'd choose you." - The Chaos Of Stars.

Adam and Allie are getting married on the 17th of September in Malibu, CA, and CB Creative Agency is helping them make their dream come true for this special day!

We have been working with the couple from the beginning, taking care of every single detail: the venue, the interior and exterior design, the menu choices, and of course, a beautiful website for "The Sharp Wedding" . Here you can find Adam & Allie’s love story, photos from the couple, and all the information you need in order to assist to the wedding.

The amazing Wheeland Photography and CB Creative Agency picked two different locations for the shoot:Laguna Beach by The Montage Hotel & San Onofre State Beach.

One of our favorite moments from this project was the engagement photoshoot production, and are proud share our favorite photographs from that magical day. Enjoy :)

At its core CB Creative Agency is motivated by a love for creative evolution, and we hope each blog post inspires you with our work. Be sure to check out our Facebook and Instagram pages @cbcreative.agency.

We love creating brand identities and defining the image for our clients.

What is branding? : "Brands exist as a means of communicating what to expect from a product or service." -Richard Branson. Basically, when we “brand” an individual or business, we find the core of the business’ values and create a visual narrative. CB Creative’s branding projects largely include website and logo design.

We had the privilege to do the branding, website, and initial image lifestyle shoot for Grammy nominated producer and guitarist, Dru Decaro. Known for his stormy rocknroll tone, RnB soul and jazzy subtlety, DeCaro has recorded and performed with many of the top names in the game. We would describe Dru as magnetic, fun, eccentric, bold, eye-catching, and electric-- all qualities we sought to encapsulate in Dru’s branding and image in his stylized photoshoot.

Dru's website contains information about his endorsements, social media connections, press, music, a personal journal & Tumblr, videos, a photo gallery, and Dru's own line of products. Pictured: Dru holding a guitar pick with his logo.

If you’re looking for branding consultancy and need help expressing your brand’s core values and mission, don’t hesitate to contact CB Creative Agency! We love to get to know our clients to help share their vision with the world.

At its core CB Creative Agency is motivated by a love for creative evolution, and we hope each blog post inspires you with our work!

At its core CB Creative Agency is motivated by a love for creative evolution, and we hope each blog post inspires you with our work. Be sure to follow us Facebook and Instagram @cbcreative.agency for the latest happenings. Thanks for checking us out!